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Daguerreotype of a city street with shops and carriages – Antique Photo Print

Daguerreotype of a city street with shops and carriages, 1842 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype of a city street with shops and carriages, 1842. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Daguerreotype of a city street with shops and carriages. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Daguerreotype of a city street with shops and carriages

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Street views from 1842 are relatively uncommon, so this daguerreotype of shops and carriages on a city thoroughfare offers a rare glimpse of everyday commerce. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, each a single unique image that had to be tilted to show its positive tones. Exposures in that period often ran for several minutes, so moving traffic usually left no trace, and any carriage that appears was likely standing still long enough to register. Such details reveal much about street life only a few years after the process was announced in 1839.

Created / published1842
Original scan3,634 × 4,502 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
Reference113_North_side_of_Chestnut_1842

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